May 25, 2012
  • 11/1/09

    blondie

    By Emily Hulme

    Blondie@Brooklyn Museum, Oct. 29, 2009

    Miss thing has still got it going on (although maybe it was the lighting, but I think she might be a brunette these days. (ETA: Further research reveals it was a costume!(ETA: Maybe? I'm so confused))). For the opening of the Brooklyn Museum's "Who Shot Rock & Roll?" she played to a packed house in the museum's beautiful Beaux-Arts Court. The sound was slightly fuzzy, but Blondie herself was fabulous.

    The audience, which included a lot of children, was totally into it, and there was some real-live dancing in Brooklyn (and, no, it wasn't just the kids). She opened with "Call Me," and played hit after hit. During "Rapture," my favorite, she let her guitarist take an extended bluesy solo before she came back for a second rap verse, which she spit totally new school.

    Just before the end, she played a cover of Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough," which, pretty much only if you're Blondie is it cool to cover MJ at this date. Then she wrapped it up with "One Way or Another." It felt like a short set (it was about 40 minutes of rocking and rapping), but it was jam-packed with awesome.

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